It could be One Million and One if they would sell me one on my X-Box 360. lol. I'm still itching for MMO action on my X-Box. I know I have some prospects for my PS3... but the 360 seems to have trouble actually getting MMO's onto the market. FFXI aside. True Fantasy Online was a victim last gen. This gen we lost the Marvel MMO, the Conan MMO, and Champions is being held up for whatever reason... and Old Republic, an I.P. that started on X-Box, is going to PC first with no word on a console release yet... A.P.B. hasn't hit the PC yet, so no telling if the supposed X-Box version will make it. Word was they wanted to put Star Trek Online on 360 too, but if they don't handle Champions well, the studio may have second thoughts on that. Is it too much to ask to get some X-Box Live MMO loving? :) #championsonline
Best P2P MMO out there right now, despite its occasional server issues. I wish WoW wasn't digital cocaine for some reason, and people could give a good game a chance. #championsonline
Still trying to figure out how cryptic runs their game. I've seen more high level characters with vulgar names and racist names then anything else. And I don't mean minor things, I mean names like "HANGALLNI**ERS" and "IRAPEKIDS", of course fully typed out, not the stars. I played for a few weeks to give it a fair try, but the community is somehow below WoWs. #championsonline
@Nulls: Name me one word that uses the letters n-i-g-g-e-r all in a row that ISN'T offensive. That should have been caught by a program used to prevent the creation of offensive usernames. Regardless of whether or not Cryptic can stop every offensive name from being used, it would not kill them to make a simple effort at banning the most common ones. #championsonline
@Curse_Lily: How can you possibly still have a computer that old?
Just recently I bought a computer for $400 that has a quad-core Phenom 2 X4 processor at 3.0ghz, 4 gigs of DDR2800 RAM, a 9800 GT with 512VRAM, a kickass motherboard, and a HDD with a 32mb cache and dual processors.
Huh, a game that I actually have the recommended specs for. That's not common anymore. Doubt I'll be able to play the PC version of this one until I can afford a new hard drive, though. :[
They really need to announce when the console versions are coming out, and whether or not they have M/KB support.
@Chris Piwarski: Champions has been confirmed for consoles for a while...unless you mean the mouse/keyboard support thing, in which case I kinda agree.
We'll see though, the PS3 supports it already and I would assume most MMO development studios know that.
My friends and I really wanted this game to come out this summer, and now it is! Consider it bought... I just wonder if it will actually have a 360 version and if it will launch on the same day.
@Archaotic Has The FFXIII Demo!: My friend is in beta right now and says an online manual for it has button layouts for a 360 controller. Also the game is set up to work well with a controller, I'm really interested in playing it on my 360. I just don't have a lot of faith that the game will launch on all platforms at the same time.
It won't. As far as I can tell, it'll launch on PC first, then 360 later, and PS3 some time after that. Probably better to do that and make sure it runs flawlessly on each system than to try and launch it on all three at the same time and cause performance issues.
@Akua: I don't get to play all that often these days, but I've had a good number of sessions on it. I have mixed feelings about it. Character creation is, of course, brilliant, but power customization is not quite where I would have it (i.e., Freedom Force). Other than that, let's just say that it's still in beta.
@Rebochan: I disagree, I'm having fun with it. Most of the un-fun parts can be traced to the fact that it's a BETA. The devs are in touch with the fanbase, they patrol the preview forums regularly, and have weekly discussion threads based on content new or old.
@nygiants10: Why would it come to the 360? To my recollection there has never been a successful MMO come to consoles, they belong on the PC. Also your comment will just start a flame war...
@Skyline7284: Because they've been talking about this being on consoles off-and-on for a while. When EDGE visited their office, though they didn't want to talk about it, it was suggested that it was going to happen eventually.
Me and my wife quit because we didn't like the quest contact system. Two characters of the exact same archetype and origin could end up getting different contacts and missions. Then one would get a contact and the exact same missions you just did with the other player so you had to do the same quest twice at times. Would have been nice to atleast have the option of getting the same contacts and missions if we wanted.
@GPman: how long ago was that? with the paper/police band radio system, you should have been abe to get the same contacts as early as level 10. in fact, outside of the beginning where you go to magi, seraph, gift, etc, most of the contacts converge, so not sure what happened there, but yeah, get to 10, do 3 paper missions, do a safeguard, and return to the cop, he will give you an option of which contact to go to, and poof, same track, my best friend and his wife do this very thing.
@rianfrost: It was quite a long time ago. Long before that paper/police band radio system you mention. Sounds like they fixed that problem. My wife is hooked on WoW now though.
It still isn't enough to get me to reactivate my account, unfortunately. I've been playing on-and-off since it's initial release and the game's foundation is simply not stable enough to warrant any real commitment.
There's bugs that haven't been fixed for years, and a real level of imbalance amongst the limited powers pools.
Frankly, there just isn't enough people left playing it, at the least, on EU servers. Near the end of my last play through, a good day would consist of no more than 130 people on a server. Furthermore, Champions looks set to plunge the final knife in the CoX universe, so, I can't see myself spending my money on a renewed subscription.
I'm going to try Champions, because it looks like the kind of game that CoX should have been.
As long as they make players feel like SUPERHEROES/SUPERVILLAINS as opposed to "slightly more powerful police/criminals" I think it will be fine.
I'm not in the beta, but usually that's a bad way to judge a game. In beta, CoH was an awful, AWFUL mess. Servers crashing left and right, powers not working right or at all, but then the second the final code went up, most of those issues were fixed.
So I'll reserve judgement until I can play the final game for myself. Hopefully Emmert won't fuck this game up too.
@MasonL87: All I can say is that Champions is designed to work with an XBox controller.
Yup, that's right, an MMO with an XBox controller.
That's not saying that it's going to be bad, since I have no way of knowing that, having never played the game, but I don't get very good feelings from it.
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If you reported those people like you should have, then I am sure they would have been forced to change their name or banned.
I think it was probably worse at launch with the wow tourists. I haven't seen any offensive names in a while. #championsonline
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A program filter at this point is more of an annoyance than effective at enforcing rules to prevent offensive names.
Such obscene names like these deserve to be handled by an GM and not a program to enforce. #championsonline
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Just recently I bought a computer for $400 that has a quad-core Phenom 2 X4 processor at 3.0ghz, 4 gigs of DDR2800 RAM, a 9800 GT with 512VRAM, a kickass motherboard, and a HDD with a 32mb cache and dual processors.
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They really need to announce when the console versions are coming out, and whether or not they have M/KB support.
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I wouldn't hold my breath for the console version of any mmo. FF11 is the only one that actually managed to happen so far.
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We'll see though, the PS3 supports it already and I would assume most MMO development studios know that.
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Then again, I haven't played lately thanks to the crappy beta schedule.
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I doubt it.
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It's supposedly got versions for 360 AND PS3 coming, if job posting descriptions on Cryptic's website are to be believed.
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It won't. As far as I can tell, it'll launch on PC first, then 360 later, and PS3 some time after that. Probably better to do that and make sure it runs flawlessly on each system than to try and launch it on all three at the same time and cause performance issues.
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So, there is precedent to his wish.
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There's bugs that haven't been fixed for years, and a real level of imbalance amongst the limited powers pools.
Frankly, there just isn't enough people left playing it, at the least, on EU servers. Near the end of my last play through, a good day would consist of no more than 130 people on a server. Furthermore, Champions looks set to plunge the final knife in the CoX universe, so, I can't see myself spending my money on a renewed subscription.
Sad times for a game that had so much promise.
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I'm going to try Champions, because it looks like the kind of game that CoX should have been.
As long as they make players feel like SUPERHEROES/SUPERVILLAINS as opposed to "slightly more powerful police/criminals" I think it will be fine.
I'm not in the beta, but usually that's a bad way to judge a game. In beta, CoH was an awful, AWFUL mess. Servers crashing left and right, powers not working right or at all, but then the second the final code went up, most of those issues were fixed.
So I'll reserve judgement until I can play the final game for myself. Hopefully Emmert won't fuck this game up too.
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Yup, that's right, an MMO with an XBox controller.
That's not saying that it's going to be bad, since I have no way of knowing that, having never played the game, but I don't get very good feelings from it.
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